You have to already know what you’re doing to follow instructions like that.

I’m guessing that more often than not when someone says “I wish I could crochet a ___”, the problem isn’t lack of a pattern, it’s that they don’t know how to crochet well enough, or at all, in the first place.

Of course anyone can learn, but it can be daunting to do that on your own, especially when it comes to first getting started.

Well, those people are just wrong. Hitler may have led the German right wing, but he didn’t invent them, and if he hadn’t been there we would simply have had a different right-wing dictator who tried to take over the world. (And the replacement probably would have had concentration camps or something, too — virulent antisemitism was practically universal in the west until WWII. Go plug “Dreyfus Affair” or “Henry Ford International Jew” into Google, for example.)

Important to realize that in national socialist nazi Germany, the “right wing” was socialism and “left wing” was communism. Here, they would be left and waaay left. Up to you to figure out which is which.

Apologies in advance for ranting, but I feel the need to point out that “national socialism” is not actually a socialist or leftist ideaology. It is in fact a “far-right” or fascistoid ideaology. Don’t let the name fool you.

The idea of socialism and communism is (at least in theory) equality, focusing primarily on socio-economic differences. Thus socialists believe that, all over the world, there is a conflict of interest between the wealthy and the poor and that the poor can only truly achieve their goals by rebelling (in different ways depending on the branch of socialism).

National socialism or nazism on the other hand belive that the conflict of interest is primarily between nations and/or races. For this reason the nazis considered the class warfare of socialism to be a threat to national unity. Nazism also doesn’t necessarily oppose inequality, in fact social and racial/ethnical hierarchy is an important part of the nazi idea of utopia.

Socialism is of course capable of being authoritarian as well, but then again this is true for most political ideologies. The whole “left vs right” thing isn’t really about “control vs freedom” that’s a whole different spectrum.

One again, sorry for ranting (and for going off on a bit of a tangent near the end). There is obviously more to this than I’ve said, but I’ve carried on for long enough.

Maybe, maybe not. Hitler had a way of speaking to German people and connecting with them, especially veterans who were pissed about the end of WW1, that has been described as “hypnotizing”. I think it’s probably a combination. Yes, the stage was perfect for someone like a Hitler to come along and cause real damage, BUT without a leader who had the charisma and experiences that Hitler did, it’s likely that they would not have achieved such total control. Ultimately, there’s way too many factors in play to be able to say for sure, so there’s not much point in taking such a discussion too seriously.

Hitler wasnt really anything extraordinary, he was a populist, pure and simple. There’s been many like him, before and after, the only difference is that there usually isnt a perfect storm of factors to allow for a full takeover like that. Charismatic strongmen are a dime a dozen in politics, because people will listen to anyone who gives them a scapegoat for their problems and ego.

He probably got rejected for the same reason normal people get rejected from colleges. Too many applicants, not quite as good academically as other applicants, not enough money to buy his way in, etc etc.

As a minor tidbit, I had a conversation with a friend who worked on a project to try and curb some of the ecological problems the United States was having (and may still be having) with zebra mussels. She brought up that Europe has already come up with a relatively working solution but which is being refused for use here in the United States. The solution is a type of dam that greatly inhibits the movement of invasive species through it and thus helps to contain the otherwise problematic spread of such. The reason it is not being used here is that this dam was in fact designed by the Nazis or possibly even Hilter himself.

There are instances of this all over. Much of the Nazi doctors’ “research” is forbidden from being circulated or used in the medical field because of the manner in which it was obtained. Many people believe that if we use this research it’s supporting human torture in the name of science. Personally, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be used. Those people are not going to come back to life, we may as well at least use their death to possibly save others. It seems like a waste of their lives not to, but I’m not the person who makes that call.

If skilled people are like atomic energy, then we ought to get rid of them all right away, because atomic energy is insanely dangerous and also non-renewable. (As in “if we replaced fossil fuel power plants with nuclear power plants we’d run out of fuel in 40 years” non-renewable.)

Umm… What? Fission and Fusion Reactions will always be possible as long as matter of any kind exists. Oh wait, you’re a troll aren’t you? Well at least other confused non-trolls can read this as a warning label.

The people who say we can “refine the fuel rods” (by which you actually mean the spent fuel rods, because the fuel rods are already refined by definition) are the same people who have been claiming that nuclear power is safe since 1960. They’ve been proven wrong over and over and over again. Refining the spent fuel rods turns out in actual practice (as opposed to the fantasies of pro-nuclear power goons) to take — tadaa! — more power than is generated using the “refined” results, so the net process is a loss. Apparently in your universe, we can keep running nuclear power plants forever on their own waste, never mind the laws of thermodynamics. Hey, as long as we’re permitted to ignore physics, why not just build perpetual motion machines and use those instead?

And in addition to the above comment, the plutonium produced by a nuclear reactor is nowhere near weapons quality. The right reactor design could produce fuel for a different type of nuclear reactor, but that’s usually at a slight loss over the normal reactor designs.

You could make a dirty bomb, but that’s just a normal explosive that just happens to be radioactive, not a nuclear weapon, and if you’re going to do that it would be far cheaper to just use raw pitchblende or yellowcake.

I ran all the math, your statement is bs. Converting all energy usage to nuclear, at the current energy usage of the world, the nuclear stockpiles would last over 200 years. As for my math, I’ll list everything.

Current energy usage is 5.6*10^20 joules. Energy density and energy released by nuclear fuel is 80620000 Mega-joules per kilogram (that’s million joules per kilogram). That means it requires a little under 7000 metric tons of uranium fuel pellets to power the world for a year. It requires 10 tons of raw uranium to manufacture 1 ton of refined uranium for a pellet. The Nuclear Energy Association puts the world’s amount of Uranium at 16 million tons, so that means 1.6 million tons refined. 1.6 million tons divided by 7000 tons per year yields 228 years.
This of course assumes that no energy is lost in a reactor and that the amount of energy used is not increased, both of which are unreasonable, but far less unreasonable than your 40 year statement. Also, in terms of safety, coal and oil plants are far more dangerous in terms of number of accidents. 60 years of nuclear power, and only two accidents that were actually truly harmful, those being Fukushima Daichi and Chernobyl. The number of coal plant accidents eclipse that number exponentially.

The 40-year figure is the one the NEA itself put out a few years back. (No, I admit I don’t have a source at this point. They’re still the ones who came up with it.)

As for “only Fukushima and Chernobyl”, you’re lying outright. Just running a Google search brings up the Wikipedia list of accidents. There have been a number of costly and deadly accidents other than those two — and between the waste dump sites (which aren’t included) and the environmental damage around the generators (look at a satellite pic of the area around a nuclear plant — the “downstream” area will always be dead because even non-radioactive water generated by nukes comes out too hot and chemically contaminated for the local wildlife to survive it) the cost is far too great. (For that matter, the costs of nuclear accidents are understated — governments underwrite nuclear power plants because private insurance companies and banks absolutely refuse to have anything to do with nuclear energy. Think about that: the industry which had no problem with writing mortgages for people without jobs a few years back and ended up crashing the world’s economy thinks nuclear power plants are too risky. If you have two brain cells to rub together, that ought to give you pause.)

(Incidentally, the damage from Chernobyl is pretty much always underestimated, because it’s still ongoing and there’s a second wave coming. There’s the “Elephant’s Foot” which is still burning its way down and will eventually reach the water table — with probably-disastrous results — and then there’s the “orange forest”. The radioactive “orange forest” is a big expanse of dead trees so contaminated that it can’t even rot because the bacteria and fungi which would do that can’t survive the radioactivity. With no new growth and no putrification, the area has been getting dryer and dryer and dryer over time. Sooner or later, there’s going to be a forest fire, and then a big cloud of radioactive dust is going to go up in the air. And all that from one meltdown.)

Vicar, you’ve been poisoned to nuclear power by American morons who’s bottom line is more important than the planet or human life.

American nuclear reactors are outdated and dangerous, inefficient and dysfunctional and in every sense of the word “Inadequate”

However, American fission reactors are not the only ones in the world.

Some of Japan’s newest reactors, and those still in development, offer safety AND fuel efficiency hundreds (Literally, genuinely literally hundreds) of times that of the 1960’s-80’s american reactors.
Take a look at Generation IV reactors (Currently only prototypes and theoretical, due to people like you and the large number of people afraid of nuclear power resulting in huge funding deficits to nuclear power)

Even using current technology, the NEA estimates that current supplies of uranium (Based on estimations alone, assuming no more uranium sites are discovered, no new fissile material is produced through breeder reactions and no advancement of technology) Would COMPLETELY cover the world’s energy usage, including estimates of energy inflation for more than 150 years, with upper estimates stating as long as 200 years.

That’s if we keep using 1960’s 3 mile island concrete garbage.

Imagine if funding went into the safer and more efficient Gen 4 reactors, suddenly we are able to fuel earth’s energy needs….. indefinitely.

As in climate change kills all humans before we run out of fissile material indefinitely.

Not to mention, meltdowns are better understood and measures to prevent them exist which never used to.
Nuclear waste is now being used to produce more fissile material, it’s volume is significantly decreased, it’s threat to the environment reduced to near natural levels and our methods of storage are improving every year.

Finally, you mention incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima…
Once again, you’re using outdated reactors and statistics, you’re also failing to account for the ignorance and human error that resulted in this catasrophes and you’re also ignoring the gigantic elephant in the room which is that….

Every single nuclear accident combined, ever, has resulted in similar environmental damage to each decade of coal consumption since it’s inception.

And I quote:
“The nature of the area seems to have not only survived, but flourished due to significant reduction of human impact. The zone has become a “Radiological Reserve”, a classic example of an involuntary park.”

It was alternate until Jonesy messed up their return (“I’m sorry I thought about time travel and caused a hash paradox that stopped Jared’s Omnathulu from cancelling out when we got back”), then it became reality.

How they solved it was ambiguous, so it could have been by going back and cancelling it again somehow, or by doing some mundane kind of cleanup to stop the apocalypse and get everything back to normal. From the way Commander talked about breaking problems into manageable pieces, I’m leaning towards mundane clean-up.

It was obviously a series of whirlwind adventures wherein battles were fought, lessons were learned, and awesomeness abounded. However, despite these tales FAR exceeding the radicalness of what we saw, they were cancelled out in the end by more time travel so not even Commander knows exactly what transpired. Only that delegation and breaking up problems was key…somehow. He tries not to think about it.

Ok, this is just me letting my mind wander but I think sometimes I experience similar creative outbursts. Just about a year ago I started writing short stories and while I enjoy it, I also SEEM to be good at it. Perhaps I should go full writer before I turn into a super villain myself

Jared… Supervillain… I dunno, if I hadn’t already seen Cult Leader Jared I’d never be able to imagine Jared doing anything like that. Then again, he DID train Mr. Fish by using him as a living cudgel and bashing the life out of other Pokemon. And the manly men at the agency do listen to him (to an extent) and there you’ve got the makings of a pretty decent army.

What to be picky but we reading comic I have to ask what exactly counts as adult supervision in this comic? I remember the what was it TeamFourStar Meme which says that Goku is not an adult so I started thinking about the other manly guys that way wondering which ones are the count as adults and which ones don’t

When it comes to Rock’s future super soldier family my brain just goes to “big European family gathering” mode. If you don’t have one, it usually gets portrayed okay in various sit-com movies. 5 to 10 family units (being any significant others plus relevant children) of very capable relatives, all in local proximity for no more than 3 or so days. From the outside looking in, all is chaos.

And now I can’t help but imagine Jared on a huge ominous throne dressed up as an Evil Overlord with a troubled expression on his face as Commander asks “Okay kiddo, can you explain to me How you got here?”

‘Well, first I thought it would be cool if the yoshis could talk. Then I realized I don’t know how to make them talk, so I went looking for someone who knew dark magic. Dante pointed me in the right direction, I studied under an evil wizard, middle-middle-middle, my deathcult ended up with several key positions in the government and I figured while I’m here why not try to fix things.’

“Ok, so how d’ya explain the giant magma moat?”

‘I was playing dwarf fortress at the same time as I was talking to the contractor who built my evil base for me.’

Sadly, that WOULD have been a better scene. Don’t get me wrong, The Force Awakens was a FANTASTIC movie, but Kylo Ren just didn’t seem like a good villain. I blame his actor myself. Nick Manly said it himself. Temper tantrum. Not rage, not even anger. Temper tantrum. Not NEARLY enough emoting. No complaints about the others though.

It’s fairly canon that a lightsaber blade is only hot within like a millimeter or less of the blade, unless you have sustained contact… and then you can melt doors. It would instantly crisp the edges of the cheese as you slice. If you sliced thin enough you’d end up with just cheese crisps.

More likely that scene would be Jared taking off the mask and giving the officer (or whoever) that super deep Jared anger frown.

I’ve been on a monthlong Xenoblade Chronicles X streak now… over 160 hours in, and finally about to recruit the 18th and last ally character.

Of course, almost nobody from that game fits in the MGDMT agency… maybe Frye, but that’s kinda pushing it. Doug and Vandham have the figure but not quite the personality (too well-adjusted, but Vandham’s close).

The crochet yoshis are actually the first step in Jared’s world domination plan. If they had come back just a day later, he would already have had at least one continent under the thrall of the adorable yarn dinosaurs.

I so want to try Yoshi’s Woolly World! Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island has always been my favorite platforming game, and I’m told that this is the first Yoshi game in years that comes close to capturing that game’s magic. The only thing that disappoints me is that according to the YouTube videos I’ve seen, they tend to re-use bosses, whereas the old game had two original bosses for every world (Which bums me out, because Yoshi’s Island had my favorite boss enemies of any game!).

I never played Yoshi’s Island, but it reminds me a ton of Yoshi’s Story, which was basically the game I bought an N64 to play. I’m playing through it super slow to collect all the flowers and yarn balls so I can save all the yoshis (also because I’m a grown up with real life responsibilities who can’t just play Yoshi story all day but eeeeh whaddayagonnado)

It’s true, the bit about creative people being like bombs. I know that I spent quite a few years of my youth in a perpetual battle with the unoriginality of local public education. I don’t know if I was or am an evil genius, but all my schoolteachers seemed to think so. Creativity is pretty dangerous because it leads to massive boredom and disenfranchisement with the system. I’ve been there. This leads to trying to change the system, and then you start seeing people going all Senator Armstrong (NANOMACHINES!) and suchlike.

Jared’s from Kanto, the country Pokemon Red and Blue take place in. Now if we all nostalgia back to the 90s we will remember in the bedroom of the trainer in Pokemon Red and Blue there’s an SNES and interacting with it will describe Mario on the TV.

I think the scariest thing is not that Jared might accidentally turn into a supervillain, but he might do that and all the guys back at the shop would happily follow him wherever he went after such a transformation.

Man, finally, after a huge catch-up of three days in which I literally didn’t do anything besides reading this comic, eating junk food and half-sleeping, I can say this: your comic is the best one I ever read!!!

Now if you excuse me, I’ll go to eat some decent meal after agood nap.

Jared as a supervillain, that would make a nice arc. … because, I guess, if you add up stupid moves, teenage awkward sense of decision, a bunch of deranged manly men and sea monsters…please do it …A supervillain that you get rid of by grabbing him by the ear, or a nice slap behind the head… or just a “go to your room” stares from the commander…hahaha Jared is a lovely character! :3

i dont know why but it makes me laugh to think that being who (or rather what) he is, he can most likely allow himself to smoke like an industrial chimney and still not have a single health issue with that.
I find that funny somehow

I feel like that Commander wanted to get back earlier because he’s become so close to Jared, that he really feels he is is father figure and wanted to make sure he was okay. The whole omnathulu cult thing probably helps too.

Man, it’s only now hitting me that Jared is totally one of Lobster’s Manly Dudes. Think about it–not entirely functional in normal society, extreme danger to everyone around him without adult supervision, so full of testosterone that it’s a wonder Mr. Fish doesn’t grow a beard–it’s a perfect fit!

He spawned/led a cult to Apocalyptic Glory in Commander’s absence. He has strange obsessions and stranger skills. Plus basically traumatizing his fish into becoming a lazer fish and did what few (if no) Pokemon Gang had ever done: got himself barred from the League.